On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 21:34:14 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 20:43:11 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 00:26:16 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) >> wrote: >>> Hi Cristian! >>> 11 Dec 2001, Cristian Burneci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> CB> I am astonished by this method Caldera has chosen in order to install >>> CB> Linux. Red Hat is able to install itself on an empty disk, containing >>> CB> all the tools necessary to partition it. >>> So does Caldera :))) >> Yep, no problem. :) >> To install from the OpenLinux CD when booted into DOS (any flavor) >> After loading your CD drivers run the DOS install bat file. >> r:\col\launch\dos\install.bat >> ^change to the drive letter of your CD > Will the DOS install batch file also run a patitioning program for > you so that you can install OpenLinux? > And how do I install a boot loader program? In order to install > the boot loader program BootMagic that comes on the CD I have to > first install Windows. After I install the boot loader, BootMagic, > I can install DR-DOS by booting to a DR-DOS system floppy and > running "sys c:". Then I can boot to either DR-DOS or OpenLinux. > The problem is that I can't get rid of all the residual wincrap > because neither DR-DOS nor WIN95 DOS will delete the LFNs. > Sam Heywood I want to be the first to congratulate myself for finally having gotten rid of all this wincrap. Over the holidays I visited the affected machine and I re-installed Caldera OpenLinux all over again. I used the same procedure as before, by installing Windows first, then Partition Magic to partition my drive. After performing the partioning procedure I installed OpenLinux, then BootMagic. This time while Windows was still installed I copied DELTREE.EXE to C:\ and then I deltreed Windows and next I deltreed PROGRA~1. This time it worked! Next I booted the machine with a DR-DOS 7.03 system floppy and ran "sys c:". Now I have a dual boot machine which allows the operator to select between running OpenLinux or DR-DOS 7.03 on bootup. When I tried to accomplish this the first time it worked too, but a problem remained in that I could not get rid of all the unwanted Windows directories and files. When I did it the first time I ran "sys c:" BEFORE running the Windows version of DELTREE. Then I tried running a DOS utility known as DELDIR.COM in an attempt to delete the unwanted directories. This didn't work. In fact it screwed up my directory structure so bad that neither Windows SCANDISK could fix it and Windows DELTREE couldn't even get rid of the unwanted directories. I had used DELDIR.COM many times before and it had always worked just fine, but I had never used it before for LFNs. Conclusion: We have to be very careful in deciding what kind of a file or directory deletion program to use for getting rid of all this insufferable wincrap. Sometimes you can't flush it down easily. You have to use the right tool for the right job. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
